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Cybersecurity analysts have revealed harmful libraries within the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are intended to extract confidential data.
According to ReversingLabs, two of the packages, bitcoinlibdbfix and bitcoinlib-dev, pretend to be solutions for recent problems identified in an authentic Python module named bitcoinlib. A third package found by Socket, disgrasya, held a